Handrail for an escalator or moving walk and escalator or moving walk with such a handrail
US7243775B2 · kind B2 · utility
Inventors
Key dates
| Filing date | May 9, 2006 |
| Grant date | Jul 17, 2007 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | May 9, 2026 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC B)Performing Operations; Transporting
- CPC primaryB66B23/14
- WIPO fieldHandling
- WIPO sectorMechanical engineering
Abstract
A handrail for an escalator or moving walk that has a fixed guide device and a handrail body that moves along the guide device when in operation is disclosed. The guide device has a form-giving guide section that contains a lip-guide that extends along a longitudinal direction of the guide section. The handrail body is strip-shaped and has two edge-lips that extend along two longitudinal edges of the strip-shaped handrail body. The edge-lips are formed in such manner that they run parallel to the longitudinal direction when the handrail body moves in the lip guide. The guide section essentially defines the form of the handrail in both the direction parallel to the longitudinal direction and in a cross-sectional plane perpendicular to the longitudinal direction.
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